My thoughts on why @Girlguiding’s transgender inclusion policy is so dangerous for girls and trans-excluding rather than trans-including: 1) 97% of sexual crimes are committed by men and boys. Allowing boys to share overnight accommodation, showers and changing facilities with girls and allowing men to provide overnight and intimate care for girls puts those girls in danger.

Things which are not #transphobic, despite TRAs shouting otherwise:

- safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- homosexuality
- heterosexuality
- women’s rights
- science
- evidence-based healthcare
- asking questions
- women saying ‘no’ to men Sex, race, religion, sexual orientation: all are protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. Gender identity is not. Gender reassignment is not the winning card in a game of top trumps. Every protected characteristic must be considered when changing policy or law.

#swearygodmothertip

1: Too hot to do the ironing? Send it out, dahling!

@SwearyGodmother #swearygodmothertip

2: Make sure to put two sets of cut-glass tumblers on your wedding list, otherwise you’ll be short at larger dinner parties.

I was troubled at @EmilyThornberry’s remark at a recent @Fabians event that ‘women have space to budge up for transwomen in our spaces’ in response to my question about @UKLabour allowing self-ID women on their AWS. It came after a great speech in which Thornberry (1)

https://twitter.com/contentcamper70/status/1015324861877678081

spoke at length about the male domination of politics and female MPs fighting to be both seen and heard against a tidal wave of abuse. I was amazed that she contradicted herself like that. Women don’t have room to ‘budge up’. (2)

To the doxxers of #ManFriday... When you go on holiday, may you always get food poisoning, delayed flights, the seat next to the toddler and lost baggage.

https://twitter.com/sandydrawsbadly/status/1013141169386196993

May you always have the back of your skirt tucked into your knickers, with used loo roll hanging out.

Following @DebbieHayton 's call for suggestions on how to balance women's rights, safety, privacy and dignity with the privacy desired by sufferers of gender dysphoria, I'm interested to know what people think of my proposal. See thread... My proposal: keep the GRA as it is. Make the process for obtaining a GRC completely transparent, with clear, published criteria for obtaining one and a review meeting with the board 1 year into the 2 year ‘living as’ period. (1)

Long, long thread. A re-write of @LadybirdBooks Sleeping Beauty to make it fit for the 21st Century:

Once upon a time, there lived a kign and queen wo were very happy, except for one thing. They both longed to have children but they had none. (1) Now it happened one day, when the queen had been bathing, that a frog crept out of the water. The queen told the frog all about her longing for a child and felt much better. (2)

I'm back from 2 weeks behind the Great Firewall. Two weeks with my family have been wonderful. Now it's time to head back into the discussion around gender self-ID. For anyone wondering what my thinking is on this and why I started @ManFRIDAY_, here goes: 1) All people should be free to express their personality in the way they style their appearance without suffering from mockery, bullying or undue discrimination.